Best Bets! Online Library Resources for Art History
how to find scholarly, peer reviewed articles
The databases listed here are the best places to start your search for scholarly articles on art topics. They can be searched by keyword or subject. The results will give you the title and author of an article and the journal in which it can be found. Then you must locate the journal to read the article. Journal titles are usually in italics, followed by the volume and issue number and/or the date of the publication. The "View Now UK" button will provide alternatives for locating the article. If the journal is provided by our library, you will either have to find it on the shelf by searching InfoKat Discovery for its call number location or click on the online provider that is highlighted and underlined.
art & art history databases
UK Libraries currently subscribes to Grove Art Online, the largest and most authoritative encyclopedia of art history, through its publisher, Oxford Art Online
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Art History (Oxford Bibliographies Online) This link opens in a new windowThe Oxford Bibliographies are authoritative research guides across a variety of subject areas. The Art History guide offers bibliographies on 119+ art history topics from "Adornment, Dress, and African Arts of the Body" to "Yuan Dynasty Art".
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Art Index This link opens in a new windowhigh-quality indexing of over 600 current art periodicals, plus dissertations and image reproductions
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Art Index Retrospective This link opens in a new windowhigh-quality indexing of over 600 art periodicals for articles published from 1929 to 1984
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ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) This link opens in a new windowindexes information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards, published from the late 1960s to the present
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new windowThe Arts & Humanities Citation Index in Web of Science indexes 87 major American and European art periodicals such as Apollo, ARTnews, Art Bulletin, museum journals, etc.
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Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and Rpertoire de la Litterature de l'Art (RILA) This link opens in a new windowCovers western art history topics published between 1975 and 2007.
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new windowa comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design from over 700 publications
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Artstor This link opens in a new windowThe Artstor Digital Library is an extensive image resource available for educational and scholarly use. The collections feature visual media from museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. Sign up for a personal account linked to the UK Libraries subscription to save, download, and use the images in your art history projects.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR provides full text PDFs for the back issues of important academic journals. 150+ art history publications are included, such as African Arts, the CAA's Art Bulletin and Art Journal, Artibus Asiae, Muqarnas, Oxford Art Journal, Print Quarterly, Renaissance Quarterly, and a great many art museum publications, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin.
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Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new windowOxford Art Online provides access to Grove Art Online, the largest and most authoritative encyclopedia of art history, among other resources. UK Libraries currently subscribes only to Grove Art Online.
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Dissertations and Theses Global (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowAs the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day with over a million full-text dissertations. The database offers full text for most dissertations added since 1997 and retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.
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ProQuest News and Newspapers Combined Search This link opens in a new windowCombined search of several ProQuest databases.
art education
Keyword searches using art terms will work in any of these versions of the Educational Resources database.
Look for full-text articles.
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ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) [U.S. Dept. of Education] This link opens in a new windowConsists of two files: the Resources in Education (RIE) file of ERIC document citations and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) file of journal article citations from over 1,100 journals. Both files provide abstracts. In addition, selected ERIC Digest records are available that feature the full-text of the original document. Also provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
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ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) [EBSCOhost] This link opens in a new windowConsists of two files: the Resources in Education (RIE) file of ERIC document citations and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) file of journal article citations from over 1,000 journals. Both files provide abstracts. In addition, ERIC now contains over 2,200 ERIC Digest records that feature the full-text of the original document. Also provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
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ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) [ProQuest] This link opens in a new windowConsists of two files: the Resources in Education (RIE) file of ERIC document citations and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) file of journal article citations from over 1,000 journals. Both files provide abstracts. In addition, ERIC now contains over 2,200 ERIC Digest records that feature the full-text of the original document. Also provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
Art world websites and daily art news
art history e-journals
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RIHA JournalJournal of the International Association of Research Institi\utes in the History of Art
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E-Journals A-Z This link opens in a new windowTitle-by-title database of the journals available full-text in electronic form through University of Kentucky Libraries' subscriptions. The primary purpose of the E-Journals Database is to give you access to specific, known journal titles you are seeking. (Search for JOURNAL here, not ARTICLE.)